Good Day Thomas Jefferson, Our podcast listeners, and thank you for listening.

Oh my, here we go David.

This huge, crazy national controversy over the Supreme Court is now beginning and I tell you

You're going to hear about almost nothing else for the next six months.

It's important.

Well, it is important, but you know, I tried to talk to Mr. Jefferson

about my optimism, and I talked to you.

And I asked him if he thought I was naive and he did not say yes.

I did not answer. But I really do believe that we don't know what we're going to get.

Well, you know, we remember what David Eisenhower is said to have said, he said, I made

two mistakes during my presidency and they're both on the Supreme Court.

I love that.

It's probably apocryphal, but it's a great

great line. Back to my naivete. Well think of how the country responded to John

Roberts when he affirmed the Affordable Care Act. You know they expected that he would be on the right side, the anti- the there's lifetime appointments and I'm going okay but yeah maybe that's good because they're

not going to have to answer to anybody he didn't quite you don't either I don't

either I think that we should have the Missouri plan if you know what the

Missouri plan is that someone gets named to a court

you become a justice of the court in Missouri. Many states have adopted this.

Then after a period of four or six or seven years you have to stand for a vote of confidence. If you

pass that vote of confidence you're in either for life or for another long

period, but the idea is that a person is appointed, she or he, they have a trial period of X number of years, and then

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